21 Oct 1905
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1905
Page
1
Louis Cohn and Bros present a sale on Red Seal Ginghams and various fabrics. Items include 25 inch wide ginghams per yard, 82 inch bleached domestic textiles, old broadcloth and wool damask, 30 inch Tricou, 52 inch damask, heavy sheetings, and fleece lined children's and women's union suits. Also offered are ribbed hose and assorted prices on small textile goods.
A historical grocery ad lists flour varieties including Snow Wreath and Etherial patent sacks. Also shown are bacon ribs Liverpool Salt 200 lb sacks Cream Meal Sugar swift hams breakfast bacon coffee leaf lard and Enterprise soup. Prices appear per 50 60 75 10 45 65 54 64 15 4 124 9s.
Variety of items for sale include Studebaker Farm Wagon 23 with seat at $3, Cast Standard Leather Top Buggy from the 1920s, Jewel Steel Range with four holes and cooking utensils, Deering mower with 44 foot blade at $829.00, Deering 10 foot steel rake for horse dump at $47.50, Standard Rotary Sewing merch potomalic ake beads at $37.50, Blue Grass Cane Mill No. 2, and other miscellaneous agricultural implements priced and described with apparent OCR errors.
Brookhaven boards ease quarantine measures with towns and counties free except for actually infected points. Freight embargo lifted for most goods except bananas from New Orleans as health officials expect to raise county quarantine soon, believing yellow fever risk waning. The Leader notes no new Mississippi infections in a month and predicts further loosening within a week.
An immense assortment of serviceable suits overcoats and trousers announced with newest patterns and snappy styles. Men’s suits range from ten to twenty dollars with all wool fabrics. youths from five to ten dollars featuring cassimeres serges and worsteds. trousers offer the handsomest patterns.
Local shoe ads list Edwin Clapp's men's shoes in vici and patent leathers with prices around 8 to 12 dollars. Crawford's men’s shoes feature patent vici at about 5 dollars. Utz & Dunn's ladies shoes range from 4 50 to 4 dollars, reflecting a sale on various styles and sizes.
On Wednesday evening November 1 Dr Ethelbert Galloway only son of Bishop and Mrs Charles B Galloway will marry Miss Mabel Clare daughter of Mr and Mrs S J Johnson of Jackson The ceremony is set for First Methodist church The bride a prominent Capital City belle and a rising figure in the state medical fraternity The groom a Millsaps and major medical college graduate serving as City Physician of the Capital City Brookhaven friends recall Ethel as a cherished boy and express best wishes for his future happiness and success
President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association spoke in Brookhaven on Wednesday and wired messages to county cotton exchanges urging merchants bankers guano dealers and cotton factors to extend customer accounts until January 1 1906. He warned of a protracted holdout by farmers to push up prices and said cooperative action could freeze the spot market for up to three months if needed.
Franklin county mourns the loss of Mr. E. B. Seale an aged citizen who died of yellow fever in Roxie on Tuesday. Charley Hemby brother of Rev. John P. Hemby of Brookhaven also died after a fever relapse on Thursday. Sympathy goes to the bereaved as Mr. Hemby had lost his mother two weeks earlier. Mr. M. F. Byrd of Roxie who sought care for his brother’s death and nursed Hemby’s children contracted fever but has recovered and been discharged by his physician.
A garbled OCR fragment references marriage licenses and names including Brister and Lizzie Hodarasa, Reina Streae, Eugene Gaines, Ennie Johnsqus, Nick Amopé, Wrroetta Kosterling, and J. TB. Lightewy, with scattered place mentions and dates. The text is incomplete and unclear.
The Chancery Court operated through the week with a short Wednesday recess. Cases include divorces for Ebenezer McNulty, Caroline Simms, Fannie Garvey, Marcie Carl, Sam Anderson, Dora Scott, and John J Helms next friend, plus land sales and guardianship orders. The South McComb church report highlights growth, debt clearance, and active ministry. Washington report shows Judge Advocate General Davis noting 35 officers convicted and 456 acquitted across 4,800 trials, a rise in court-martial outcomes.
Local reports show a pamphlet for President Roosevelt's tour claiming the Illinois Central line to New Orleans, though officials note the Y M V & T route via Vicksburg may be used. Distances differ 396 miles versus 455 miles, prompting questions about timing and the possible main-line choice. Residents discuss reception plans at Hammond and Brookhaven, while cotton farmers unite to support Southern Cotton Association resolutions urging unity, debt relief, and countering market manipulation. Soldiers from Camp Le Jeune return, with several still on duty awaiting a quarantine lift as federal court postponement affects local business ahead of the June term.
Lincoln County reports contributions to the Mississippi Cotton fund totaling 250 dollars. Many colored citizens contributed in the miscellaneous cash collection. P. & Whitney served as financial agents.
Brandon October eighteenth scene at Bosick’s pavilion hosting the Rankin County Fiddlers Convention. Attendees from adjoining counties and Jackson participated, performing bouts and routines before adjourning to nearby venues amid festive music and rural culture.
Justice Daughtry disposed of several cases for the week ending yesterday. Addie Brown-Malicious mischief fined 5 dollars plus costs. John Gaina disturbing the peace fined 3.90 dollars and costs. Mater Williams vagrancy discharged. John Lee assault and battery fined 5 dollars and costs. Carrying concealed weapons fined and cont. eae. Epels tele voillises dintietng the pexés Vinod 86 and coals Lula Willinwis peaan dom.
A fragmented excerpt depicts discourse on laundry duties among Brookhaven’s households. It portrays a race‑coded exchange where a Black woman is pressured to do the wash, noting her pricing and slow progress amid tensions over service and time.
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